Improvement in machines for printing and embossing skirts



Q H. i. DAVIES.

'Machins for Printing and Embossing Skirts. No. 137,184.

Patented March 25,1873.

,\ AM. PHOTO'L/THUEHAPH/C no. N mmomsls Pnuvsss) UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY J. DAVIES, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO JAMES G. BENNETT AND ANDREW E. SMITH, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN MACHINES FOR PRINTING AND EMBOSSING SKIRTS.

Specification forming part of leiicrs Patent No. 137,184, dated Marth 25, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY J. DAVIES, of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented Improvements in Machines for Printing and Embossing Skirts and other articles, of which the following is a specification:

This invention consists in a novel combina tion and arrangement of conical printing, embossing, and impression rollers, their sup porting-frame, and a feed-table, whereby great facility is afiorded for printing and embossing skirts, or other articles of circular or partly circular form.

In'the accompanying drawing, Figure I is a side view of a machine constructed according to my invention. Fig. 2 is a back view of the same, and Fig. 3 is a diagram, showing the taper and relative convergence of the rollers.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all three figures.

A is an open-sided frame, of suitable shape, for supporting the rollers. It consists of a base-piece, from one side of which there pro-- jects upwardly a standard, a, which extends across in a horizontal direction, and te'rminates in a downward extension, 1), parallel with the upright portion (6 just mentioned. It has, also, opposite the standard a and under the downward extension I), a short standard, it, between which and the extension b there is an opening, 1'. B is the impressionroller, which is covered with flannel, felt, or other like material, to give it a yielding surface. Its journals are supported in bearings arranged within housings provided in the portions a and b of the frame. These bearings are provided with suitable means for lowering and raising them to increase or lessen the pressure of the roller on the printing and embossing rollers. The printing-roller O is supported in bearings c c projecting from the forward side of the frame, and the embossing-roller D is supported in corresponding bearings on the other side of the frame. The

axes of these two rollers and the axis of the impression-roller converge all toward a central point, and all the rollers taper to the same point. This point is so situated that the lines of contact of the impression roller with the printing roller, and with the embossing-roller, are horizontal. E is a feed table, the surface of which is horizontal, and in or nearly in the same plane with the lines of contact of the printing and embossing rollers with the impression-roller, and opposite the opening i in one side of the frame of the machine. This feed-table is of are form, its edges being struck from the point in which the axes and profile lines of the rollers A, B, and 0 would meet. It is furnished on the outer side with a guide, 6, for guiding the goods to be operated on to the rollers, the said guide conforming to the arc shape of the table. The "printing and embossing rollers C and D are geared to turn together by means of spur-wheels F F on their journals, and an intermediate gear, G. These wheels F F must be so attached to the rollers as to be adjustable relatively to them, in order to get the patterns of both to register exactly alike. The surface of the embossing-roller D is precisely like that of the printing-roller, except that its pattern is out much deeper. This roller D is heated by any suitable means, either from the interior or exterior, as may be most convenient. I is the inking or coloring roller. It is arranged in a box or trough of the coloringmatter in such position as'to rotate in contact with the printing-roller (J, and apply the color to it.

The skirt to be ornamented is fed over the feed-table with its edge against the guide e, and is thus conducted to the rollers while moving in the proper direction to pass smoothly between them, its admission between the rollers being provided for by the opening 6 in one side of the frame, which permits its on trance. In its passage between the impression-roller and the printing-roller the pattern of the latter is imparted to it, and as it moves further along, and passes between the impression-roller and the embossing-roller D, the same pattern is embossed upon it. The embossing-roller, as before mentioned, isheated, and as the skirt, wet with the pattern printed on it, passes o\ c: said roller, the yielding surface of the iihpressionroller bulges out into i the intaglio portions of the pattern, and of course forces the contiguous portions of the shirt in with it, and this is facilitated by the heating of the shirt by contact with the hot embossing-roller.

The pressure of the impression-roller B may be readily varied by shifting its bearings.

Sometimes the whole skirt is passed between the rollers, and then again only the edge is interposed between them, the rest of the article hanging over the inner end of the re lers.

. Claim.

The combination of one or more conical printing or embossing rollers, a conical impression-roller, an open-sided frame supporting the said rollers, and a feed-table having an arc-formed guide, the Whole arranged and operating substantially as herein described, for the purpose set forth.

HENRY JACKSON DAVIES.

Witnesses FRED. HAYNES, MICHAEL RYAN. 

